Hello,
When working with my Montage projects (or any project really) I usually have a great number of tracks that will exceed the scope of the view so I have to grab the vertical scroll bar to move up and down my track list.
I’m on a Mac and if I hold my command key and scroll up or down using my magic mouse, the behavior is a horizontal zoom in WaveLab as opposed to what I’d expect to be a vertical zoom up and down my track list.
If I swipe my mouse left to right, I get a horizontal scroll as expected. But if I swipe my mouse bottom to top or top to bottom, I get the same behavior with a horizontal scroll.
It’s as if there’s no support for any type of vertical scrolling aside from manually using the scroll bar.
Is there a way to enable the vertical scroll and zoom in WaveLab???
There is no way to use the mouse wheel just to scroll the tracks. I agree this would be a welcome addition.
This being said, they are several convenient features:
If you have a mouse with a 3rd button, click and drag anywhere in the track display, to “drag” the view both vertically and horizontally.
The Navigator window is a good alternative. I also just stumbled across having my cursor directly over the track title pane and moving up and down will allow me to scroll vertically with the mouse as I’d like.
It’s still not quite what I was looking for b/c both alternative require me to leave the main editing window but they will suffice for me.
Any possible plans of having the vertical scroll implemented into the main editing view the same way the horizontal scroll is working with any future updates?
Maybe I’m not understanding the request but on Mac, I can hold OPTION while scrolling up & down with the Apple Magic Mouse and it scrolls the tracks vertically.
@Justin_Perkins I am running Ventura 13.7.1 (although this shouldn’t make any difference) and holding the option key while moving up and down on the magic mouse does nothing.
While holding down the “command” key will perform a horizontal zoom. It does nothing vertically.
I am using an apple keyboard so though the option vs command keys may perform differently from what you have. The overall result is still as I’d mentioned.
Okay, I see that it does work for you so it must be the accessibility section where you’ve set something up. I have never enabled any accessibility options b/c I simply have never needed them but if there’s something within those settings that allows you to enabled the vertical scroll with the magic mouse I’d certainly be interested in knowing how you’ve set it up.
Perhaps I could dupe your setup and identify which option allows you that functionality and if it doesn’t inadvertently enable some other feature for which would be awkward for me; I’d use it.
Could you tell me or share a screenshot of what you have enabled within Accessibility?
Here’s mine, which is basically the default setting if one doesn’t select to enable them.
These are the settings that work for me (but they were not the default settings for me).
IOW, with these settings, Option + mouse wheel works as you want.
I’m not really sure what’s different for me. The vertical zoom has worked for me on a variety of Macs and OS versions in the last 5+ years (maybe more) and I don’t recall having to do any real special settings.
I’ve changed my settings to mimic your screenshots without any behavioral change. I also have tried other mentioned suggestions from @PG1 to get it to work but the results are the same.
At this point, I’m just going to go with the alternatives @PG1 provided since they work.
I’ll spend some time going through other system settings when I have time and attempt to determine which setting is the magic bullet for this but it’s simply not a productive task for me right now.
If I find what works, I’ll update this post with the answer.
